Disclosure

Affiliate Marketing Disclosure

Introduction

We use
affiliate marketing
to help defray the costs of creating, providing, and maintaining this website.
This means that if you click on an affiliate marketing link on this site and
ultimately purchase the product, we earn a small commission on the sale,
at no additional cost to you.

TomWHartung.com
— the blog of the creator and maintainer of all of these sites

You may find links from those to this one, and from this one to those.
The Privacy Policies, Terms of Service, Disclosures, and Disclaimers
for all of these websites are virtually identical.
Just so you know.

About Affiliate Marketing

The internet gives us an opportunity to share our opinions about products
we like and recommend them to visitors.
To make it easy for visitors to obtain these products, we partner with
certain merchants, known as affiliates, and
use the affiliate marketing links they provide in our content.

When you click on one of these affiliate marketing links, the following happens:

Your browser accesses the merchant's site — most likely in
a new window or browser tab

If your browser is configured to accept cookies, the merchant's site
places a referral cookie in your browser

If you make a purchase from the merchant — using the same
browser on the same device, and before the cookie expires —
the merchant pays us a commission for the referral

These commissions help us maintain and improve this and our other sites

This type of reimbursement for our work in sharing our recommendations is
known as affiliate marketing, and it helps us recoup some
of the investment we have made in creating, providing, and maintaining this website.

A Win-Win-Win Situation

Note that following an affiliate marketing link then making a purchase
does not add anything to the price you pay for the product.

Following the link and accepting the cookie costs you absolutely nothing

Merchants pay for the referral only if and when they make a sale

The commissions we earn this way help us continue to provide the site and develop new content for it

In other words, this is like free money — in a manner of speaking ☺.

Disclosures

In an effort to recoup the time and money invested in creating and
maintaining this site, some of the content on the website may contain
affiliate marketing links.

Merchants and Agencies

Following is a partial list of the companies with which we have an
affiliate marketing relationship:

Amazon — see the Disclosure for Amazon below

CJ Affiliate — an agency that a variety of merchants use

Dotster — the company we use for domain registration

ShareASale — another agency that a variety of merchants use

This is only a partial list. Affiliate marketing is a dynamic field,
and these affiliations are subject to change at anytime.
Although we may lack diligence in keeping this list up-to-date,
we make no effort to hide this information.

Transparency

To support transparency, whenever possible we put the name of the
affiliate (e.g., Amazon) or the agency managing the affiliate
relationship (e.g., CJ Affiliate) in the link itself.
Specifically, it could be either in the URL for the link, or the title
attribute — which is visible by hovering over the link — or both.

If you want to see the specific affiliate or managing agency for a link,
we encourage you to hover over the link and look closely at the
referenced URL, and any additional information available in the
title attribute, before you click or tap on it.

Disclosure for Amazon

Amazon in particular requires us to be very specific and state:

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Recommendations

We recommend only products that we have enjoyed using and
believe are worth purchasing.

If you happen to find a negative review of a product on this site,
any links provided to the product will be for more information only.

We would never provide affiliate marketing link to a product we
don't like, because we would not recommend it to you.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of affiliate marketing
on this website, you can contact us:.